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Government entities around the world are not only increasing their use of free and open source software (FOSS), they are actually sharing, collaborating and coordinating in open source fashion to meet federal, state and local government IT needs, recent data suggests IDC's government IT research company Government Insights predicts open source soft...
This is becoming an interesting summer. As we cook under the effects of "mythical" global warming, tech vendors have been busy getting ready for the second half of the year I've had a chance to review the multi-vendor FlexGo announcement and think there is a broader play here then we initially realized, one that could eliminate laptop theft altoget...
Carmakers are rapidly incorporating wireless Bluetooth technology into their new vehicles, moving at such a pace that nearly a third of all new cars will feature the equipment within five years That's a dramatic increase, up from 3 percent last year, according to a new report from the Boston-based technology and consulting firm Strategy Analytics....
Sony BMG and Yahoo are teaming up to provide online music downloads in the popular, flexible MP3 format without the usual digital rights management (DRM) controls, but for about twice the price of a typical title download The Yahoo Music release is limited to a single song from Jessica Simpson that is personalized with hundreds of names for differe...
Today's youth are at risk of going deaf relatively early in life because they are listening to MP3 players that are too loud, too often, according to a new report A survey of 1,000 Britons between the ages of 16 and 34, conducted by Specsavers Hearcare and Deafness Research UK, found that 14 percent of those individuals spend up to 28 hours per wee...
Shares of Microsoft were higher Friday after the software giant reported lower earnings -- due in part to its standoff with European antitrust regulators -- and said it would aggressively move to buy back as much as US$40 billion worth of its own stock Microsoft said profit for its fourth quarter fell to $2.83 billion, or 28 cents a share, down sha...
The United States' blogger population continues to explode, but who are the people behind the words? About 12 million American adults, or roughly 8 percent of adult Internet users, blog; and 57 million American adults, or 39 percent of the online population, read blogs, according to surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. However, the...
Google reprised its role as Wall Street darling Thursday, releasing second-quarter earnings that showed strong revenue and profit growth, beating forecast targets and apparently widening the gap between itself and its main rivals The company posted earnings of US$772 million, or $2.49 per share, on revenue of $2.46 billion, outpacing analyst consen...
In a recent article for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Monetary Unions: Are We on Our Way?" I talked about what I feel are the present dangers to the dollar and whether or not currency consolidation would reduce the risk of a dollar crisis For that article, I interviewed Morrison Bonpasse, the president of the Single Global Currency Association, an...
E-mail marketers at Time saw a significant increase in the effectiveness of their campaigns when testing a delivery system that certifies the origin of electronic messages The system, Goodmail, is designed to create a trusted class of bulk e-mail that won't be hampered by spam filters imposed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For inclusion in t...
With the CRM vendor landscape going through so many changes today, it's an excellent time to check up and see what your vendor's viability is, what their future prospects look like, and especially for the best-of-breed vendors, what their exit strategy is, if they have one I have compiled some quick tips for completing a viability assessment and di...
As the country gears up for the November elections and online communities start to buzz, it's instructive to look back at the way image myths were created, even with the openness of the Internet. The Howard Dean campaign is one example During the 2004 election, the Dean campaign was credited with using the Internet in new ways, reaching out to vote...
Google has launched a new service for the visually and learning impaired designed to make search easier by ranking search results according to how clean, or easy-to-read the Web pages are Called Accessible Search, Google's latest tweak to its search engine comes out of Google Labs. According to its FAQ section, Accessible Search looks at a number o...
Intel is looking to bounce back from its disappointing second quarter earnings report by beating its charging rival Advanced Micro Devices to market with a four-core processor later this year AMD was able to beat Intel to market with its dual-core Opteron chips for x86 servers last year, and while the smaller company's quad-core server chip is not ...
Microsoft on Wednesday released a set of guiding principles it drafted for itself that will allow computer manufacturers using Vista and any other future Microsoft operating system to remove Microsoft's MSN Search, Internet Explorer and Media Player as defaults and put competitive alternatives in their place The move is meant to emphasize Microsoft...
Seeking to help quantify the Web's impact on the problem of childhood obesity, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) said in a report issued Wednesday that many top food producers are using the Web to target children with powerful brand messages In a report titled "It's Child's Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children," KFF found...
German software giant SAP said Thursday its net profit rose 43 percent in the second quarter on higher U.S. revenues and better margins. The company reported net income of US$519 million, or $1.69 a share, compared with $366 million or $1.18 in the same quarter last year SAP had already reported last week that software license revenues rose 8 perc...
Online auction and fixed-sales giant eBay reported earnings that largely met expectations and set the outlook higher for the remainder of the year. The company also unveiled plans to raise fees in a bid to further boost revenues eBay posted earnings of US$250 million, down from $291.6 million in the year-ago period, mainly due to the impact of sto...
As personal technology goes, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are more than just a replacement for tape-based VCRs: They're a boon to TV watchers and the enemy of the traditional 30-second television advertising spot, for decades the single most powerful and lucrative form of brand advertising Devices such as TiVo have long been seen as a disruptive ...
ATG continues to build out its e-commerce platform -- an area into which it has been pouring resources for the last two years -- with the introduction of three separate but related sets of e-functionality ...
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